... In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the nebula below and right of center, and colorful M20 at the upper right. Driving Toward a Sun Halo . ... In the above case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. ... Edge On Galaxy NGC 5866 . ... Many disk galaxies are actually just as thin as NGC 5866, pictured above, but are not seen edge-on from our vantage point. ... Infrared Andromeda . ... Enceladus Ice Volcanos . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 23, 1999 . Construction of International Space Station Begins . Credit: STS-88 Shuttle Crew , NASA . Explanation: Move over Mir , here comes the International Space Station . ... The International Space Station 's low 250-mile Earth orbit causes it to experience one complete day/night cycle in about 90 minutes. ...

Program Number . ... Gordon Drukier, Yale University . Shooting Stars: Looking for Direct Evidence of Massive Central Black Holes in Globular Clusters . Abstract . ... Hubble Heritage Observations of Arp 148 . ... The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has proven a powerful tool for identifying new lens candidates, although high angular resolution HST observations are essential for confirming those candidates as genuine gravitational lensing systems (see Program GO 10886). ... Past weeks: . ...

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... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter. ...

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... Mass . ... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter...

January 11, 2012 (Wednesday) Tom Schwarz, Fermilab SEMINAR CANCELLED . ... Noon, 472 Willamette Hall . return to top . ... Recent results and an outlook for dedicated stop and sbottom searches will be discussed. 4:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... I will review the measurements done with the inclusive W (and Z) samples, focusing on the W charge asymmetry and the W transverse momentum measurements and their connection with the broader ATLAS physics program. 4:00pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...

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... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

... Visible Distribution of Galaxies. ... Features of Elliptical, Lens-Shaped, Spiral and Irregular Galaxies. Galaxies with Bar. ... Distribution of Surface Brightness of Surface and Spiral Galaxies. ... Color Characteristics of Galaxies. ... Methods of Galaxies' Mass Determination. ... Hidden Mass of Spiral Galaxies. ... Features of Dark Matter Distribution in E and SO Galaxies. ... The Whole Number of Galaxies and Their Density by the Results of Observation on the 'Hubble' Space Telescope. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 13 . Southwest Mercury . Credit: Mariner 10 , NASA . Explanation: The planet Mercury resembles a moon. ... In fact, the Earth is the only planet more dense. ... From Earth , Mercury's proximity to the Sun cause it to be visible only for a short time just after sunset or just before sunrise. ... About APOD | ...

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Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

We hosted an interdisciplinary two-day workshop on Solar Astronomy and Statistical inference at the CfA on Feb 16-17, 2012. ... Format: On the first day of the workshop, we had two tutorial sessions, one describing solar data for statisticians and the other describing statistics methods for astronomers. ... Presentation slides and video recordings are available via SIP (see links in session schedule details below). ... Video [.mov] (@SIP) . ... Massive solar data streams -- Alisdair Davey (CfA) . ...

Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix . The first version of the Scenario Machine was aimed especially at the simulation of massive binary star evolution. ... First, there is a large class of intermediate mass binaries (say, consisting initially of 8 + 5 solar masses) that can also produce NS and thus lead to the formation of a bright X-ray source. ... Next: Ejectors in Massive Binary Previous: Artificial Galaxy: Full Matrix Mike E. Prokhorov . ...